In re Estate of McCool

The petitioners, Paul McCool and Barbara Pitts, brother and sister of Charles McCool and beneficiaries of the estate of Charles McCool (the Estate), appeal from a decree of the Hillsborough County Probate Court (Cloutier, J.) disposing of their objections to the first account filed by the Estate’s original executor, the present petitionee, Attorney Robert Bossie. They ask that we reverse the probate court’s decisions: first, to impose no surcharge upon Attorney Bossie, who served as the Estate’s executor and legal counsel from January through November 1984; and second, to award partial…